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Professional Journalism
I know you are professional journalists. A profession is a fancy Latin term for the way you express your belief in the one true God as you understand him. Mr. Webster describes profession as the act of taking the vows of a religious community, or: an act of openly declaring or publicly claiming a belief or faith: an avowed religious faith a: a ...
Posted to Kausfiles by Coffee NBagodoughnuts on September 15, 2008
What the dems need to be talking about
Mr. McCain says the reason he is running negative and false ads is that he did not get the debates he wants and the trip to Iraq with Senator Obama that he wants. That puts him in the same group with 2 year olds. Do you want a two year old to be president? It also says this is the way he is going to be with congress if he does get elected. That ...
Posted to Kausfiles by Coffee NBagodoughnuts on September 15, 2008
Re: Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
Media bias is a perceived notion that certain press has and is pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news or airing programs in an objective way. That is the way I see it. Such bias often refers to media as a whole, such as a newspaper chain, or a given television or radio network, instead of individual reporters or writers of television ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
Liberal bias
''The right wing had no interest in highlighting Obama's nuanced position in Austin, either, because there was (and is) a conservative interest in painting Obama as a heedless and irresponsible pacifist, with absolutely no experience of crashing an expensive aircraft on the territory of a country on which the United States had never declared ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Shubniggurat on July 30, 2008
Obama or Clinton: who is more electable?
Neither one! They are both victims of their own personal harrassment of each other. It doesn't matter which of the two becomes the Democratic nominee, McCain will coast in with the Presidential victory. Not because McCain is the better candidate, rather because the Democrats have once again screwed themselves. I am sick of tired of hearing the ...
Posted to Politics by raspysinger on April 27, 2008
Re: Clinton vs. Obama if obama backs away.
Rossana, I respect your opinion but I believe you have things twisted a bit. It was Bill Clinton who blatantly brought up the race issue in South Carolina when he first responded to Obama winning South Carolina, and compared him to Jesse Jackson. Then, a Clinton surrogate ''mistakenly'' called him Barack Hussein Osama. Then, Geraldine Ferraro ...
Posted to Trailhead by WarIsA4LetterWord on April 26, 2008
Conveniency for conveniency sakes
It is so sad that the media influences the outcome of how public opinions and votes go. The media with their twisted view of the people's will should BUTT out of the news business or should I call it in the INFLUENCE business. Maybe that is politics as media at its best but sadly enough it is very discomforting that the POWER of the MEDIA ...
Posted to Trailhead by valentino0214 on April 1, 2008
Why we shouldn't take this garbage to heart
If it's not too leftist for you, read Matt Taibbi's piece in the Jan. 24 issue of Rolling Stone on how and why the media sucks when it comes to ''reporting'' what we need to know about the campaigns. It paints a picture of what I've always felt is reality in politicians, if there is such a thing. Namely it's all spun garbage based on what some ...
Posted to Politics by grizay82 on January 26, 2008
Re: Ron Paul schooled Huckabee
gangreneday: We should stay in Iraq because we messed it up? We've spent almost $450,000,000,000 already! Not to mention the men and women who have been killed in combat. Is Huckabee so naive to think that this sort of spending can continue without crippling our country? We got out of Vietnam too late. If you don't know our own recent ...
Posted to Politics by Winghunter on September 6, 2007